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<h2 class="chapter">13 Bootstrapping</h2>

<p>Suppose you have a stow directory all set up and ready to go:
<samp>/usr/local/stow/perl</samp> contains the Perl installation,
<samp>/usr/local/stow/stow</samp> contains Stow itself, and perhaps you have
other packages waiting to be stowed.  You&rsquo;d like to be able to do this:
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<pre class="example">cd /usr/local/stow
stow -vv *
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<p>but <code>stow</code> is not yet in your <code>PATH</code>.  Nor can you do this:
</p>
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<pre class="example">cd /usr/local/stow
stow/bin/stow -vv *
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<p>because the &lsquo;<samp>#!</samp>&rsquo; line at the beginning of <code>stow</code> tries to
locate Perl (usually in <samp>/usr/local/bin/perl</samp>), and that won&rsquo;t be
found.  The solution you must use is:
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perl/bin/perl stow/bin/stow -vv *
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